Skincare
Skincare with a reason for being
Nurturing Skin began with my own skin.
For many years, I have had to be careful about what I put on it. When skin is already dry, itchy, irritated, reactive or simply uncomfortable, I don't necessarily want to keep adding more and more ingredients.
I wanted products that were gentle enough for me to feel comfortable using, but purposeful enough for every ingredient to have a reason for being there.
That became the starting point for the Nurturing Skin skincare collection.
I didn't set out to create five products. Each one came about because I wanted something different — a rich moisturising balm, something for itchy and reactive skin, something for troubled skin, something for skin stressed by heat, and a comforting botanical chest rub.
They don't all do the same thing, and they aren't supposed to.
Each has its own purpose.
Different needs call for different formulations
One of the ideas behind Nurturing Skin is that there doesn't have to be one complicated product trying to do everything.
Sometimes I want the richness and protection of a tallow balm. At other times, a lighter botanical cream makes much more sense.
Skin that feels itchy and reactive calls for something different from skin that feels hot and tender. Troubled, blemish-prone skin has different needs again.
And the Botanical Chest Rub has its own place entirely — a comforting topical preparation created for those times when that's what I want.
The formulation changes because the purpose changes.
That's why some Nurturing Skin products contain tallow and some don't. Some are balms and others are creams. Different botanicals appear in different products because they have been chosen for the job that particular product was created to do.
Choose by what your skin is doing
Choose by what your skin is doing
I haven’t formulated these products to fit particular skin conditions. Instead, I’ve focused on how the skin looks and feels. When you look beyond the name of a condition and consider what is actually happening to the skin, the same symptoms appear again and again: dryness and flaking, heat and swelling, itching and reactivity, burning and tenderness, or blemishes and congestion.
That is how I approached the Nurturing Skin range. Rather than creating a different product for every named condition, I formulated each cream or balm around the way the skin presents. Calendula & Chamomile Tallow Balm is for skin that is dry, flaky and in need of rich, simple nourishment. Clear & Renew Botanical Cream is for blemished or congested skin. Soothe & Cool Botanical Cream is for skin that feels itchy, reactive, hot or uncomfortable. Thermal Ease Botanical Cream is for skin that feels burning, stinging, tender or heat-stressed.
So you don’t necessarily need to find a product labelled for your particular condition.
Look at what your skin is doing, how it feels, and what it seems to need — then choose the product designed for those symptoms.
Explore the Skincare Collection
Calendula & Chamomile Tallow Balm
A rich moisturising balm for skin that feels dry, sensitive or in need of extra nourishment and protection.
A simple, comforting formulation combining tallow with carefully chosen botanical ingredients for those times when skin needs something richer than a cream.
Soothe & Cool Botanical Cream
For skin that feels itchy, irritated, reactive or uncomfortably warm.
A light botanical cream featuring chickweed, marshmallow, licorice and Oregon grape, with colloidal oatmeal and supporting ingredients chosen around soothing and cooling uncomfortable skin.
Clear & Renew Botanical Cream
For skin that feels congested, blemish-prone or troubled.
A lighter botanical formulation created for clearer-looking, more comfortable skin without approaching troubled skin as something that simply needs to be stripped or attacked.
Thermal Ease Botanical Cream
For skin that feels hot, tender, stinging or heat-stressed, including after excess sun exposure.
Calendula, chamomile, plantain and marshmallow come together in a light botanical cream created around cooling, soothing comfort.
Botanical Chest Rub
A comforting botanical chest rub created for those times when you want the familiar ritual of applying something soothing to the chest.
Made with a carefully chosen combination of botanical ingredients in a rich topical base.
Not sure where to begin?
When skin is sensitive or reactive, trying a new product can feel like a commitment in itself. Sometimes you simply don't know how your skin will respond until you try a little.
That's one of the reasons I created the Discovery Collection.
Choose six Nurturing Skin minis, with a Botanical Tallow Cleansing Bar included as the seventh item, so you can explore several formulations at home before deciding which full-size products are right for you.
It doesn't have to be complicated
I don't expect one skincare product to be everything to everybody.
What I want is much more straightforward: a clear reason for a product to exist, a clear reason for the ingredients chosen for it, and a formulation that does the job it was created to do.
Some formulations are very simple. Others need more botanical support. Some contain tallow and some don't.
They don't need to be the same.
They simply need to make sense.
